It’s February 26. 
Today is “Tell a Fairy Tale Day.”  What tale can you re-tell the best?

 

Trivial Fact of the Day:   In 1929, J. M. Barrie—author of Peter Pan—gave all monetary rights to his story to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children, providing significant funding to this institution to this day.

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”  --Alexandre Dumas (French author)

Vocabulary Word of the Day:  incendiary (noun) – this fancy noun is a synonym for a person who agitates or stirs up trouble.  Sometimes it’s illegal to be an incendiary, like falsely yelling “Fire” in a crowded building.  Sometimes it’s not illegal to be an incendiary;  what do incendiaries do to be suspended from school?

Wow Wednesday!!

Pre-AP - We are going to work on Synonyms/Antonyms Unit 10. Then we will discuss double-entry journals. What is third-person omniscient? Review Parallel Structure

OGL - Have you turned in your Author Study? Have all 4 of the vocabulary words? We are going to read Ch 1 - 3.  Grammar study - choppy, run-on sentences, stringy sentences